UK satellite query

In message , Anthony Frost
writes
In message
(Gareth Slee) wrote:

Someone asked a question about a British satellite that is apparently still
visible to the naked eye.
Anyone able to help?
This is part of his message...

...It is but, looking for a 30 year old UK launched satellite [that's still
in orbit and transmitting] when you don't have a clue what the name is
or the exact year it was launched is, well, tricky to say the least.

It was covered in the first episode of the new series of "Coast" last
week. One segment covered the engine test stands on the Isle of Wight
and side tracked onto Black Arrow and Prospero. Hearing the transmitter
during a daylight pass worked, trying to get a look at it with
binoculars at night didn't.


There's more about this story at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/index.php?op...view&id=307&It
emid=86
They seem sceptical ("purported to show") that it was actually heard.
According to _this_ story it was heard in 2000 - 31 years after launch!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3388535.stm

Now here's a guy who knows his Python ;)


Pat Flannery wrote:
Rich Godwin wrote:

I think it's either called Profumo or Harold Wilson ;)



Photographs....candid photographs?
Nudge-nudge!
Say no more.
She's a goer, mate!:
http://www.arne-jacobsen.com/site_di...400/aj0413.jpg
:-)

Pat

On 6 Nov 2006 15:02:50 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Rich Godwin"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Now here's a guy who knows his Python ;)

*And* his Ed Wood...

Pat's not totally useless, he's just clueless on politics. But then,
that's to be expected from a political "science" major.

But Rand
Pat knows who Profumo was

Rand Simberg wrote:
On 6 Nov 2006 15:02:50 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Rich Godwin"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Now here's a guy who knows his Python ;)

*And* his Ed Wood...

Pat's not totally useless, he's just clueless on politics. But then,
that's to be expected from a political "science" major.

On 6 Nov 2006 16:17:24 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Rich Godwin"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

But Rand
Pat knows who Profumo was

Knowing history isn't the same as understanding it.

Rich Godwin wrote:

Now here's a guy who knows his Python ;)


Only in the biblical sense. :-)

Pat

Rand Simberg wrote:



But Rand
Pat knows who Profumo was



Knowing history isn't the same as understanding it.



Let me guess you probably didn't take much history/poli sci.
Which means you are in the same league in this regard as someone who
dismisses graduates in physics, because they don't understand his 37
dimensional universe theory.
Remember! Suction and Pressure! Zig-Zag and Swirl!
"Alfred William Lawson is God's eternal, undying, gift to man."
It's time to abandon your Classical Liberalism.
Lawsonomy has The Key To The Golden Door Of Man's Future.
It's time to have a peek at "Direct Credits For Everybody":
http://www.lawsonomy.org/DCEverybody100.html
We must examine those points on which everyone agrees, those points on
which they don't agree, and, most vitally, those points on which they
_must_ agree.
TAXES WILL BE ELIMINATED!


Pat

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:37:59 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



Rand Simberg wrote:



But Rand
Pat knows who Profumo was



Knowing history isn't the same as understanding it.



Let me guess you probably didn't take much history/poli sci.

You guess wrong. And ungrammatically.

Rand Simberg wrote:



Let me guess you probably didn't take much history/poli sci.



You guess wrong. And ungrammatically.




Yeah, but discussions of "Where shall the 'Platonic Guardians' of the
Lagrange colony live? High G or Low G?" don't count.
Let me guess what happened here... you took a course or two on this sort
of stuff and discussed your political and economic ideas with your
professors.... who stared at you with a mixture of horror and baffled
bemusement...before pouring themselves a stiff drink. Then, after you
told them that the reason they couldn't understand your concepts was
your inherently superior mind, they merely smiled at you, while
beginning to edge their fingers closer to that hidden button under the
desk. And even though you offered them the blotter acid free of charge,
they would have none of it.
So you went off in a huff...at the most, a minute and a huff.*
"Curse these small-minded fools!" you muttered, "After the Golden Age Of
Universal Truth comes, cretins like these shall be the first into the
airlock. Their Life Extension shall not be allowed!" ...and floating
next to you, the glowing head of Timothy Leary nodded in agreement. :-)

* Thank you, Groucho.

Pat

LOL
Tim Leary even!

Pat Flannery wrote:
Rand Simberg wrote:



Let me guess you probably didn't take much history/poli sci.



You guess wrong. And ungrammatically.




Yeah, but discussions of "Where shall the 'Platonic Guardians' of the
Lagrange colony live? High G or Low G?" don't count.
Let me guess what happened here... you took a course or two on this sort
of stuff and discussed your political and economic ideas with your
professors.... who stared at you with a mixture of horror and baffled
bemusement...before pouring themselves a stiff drink. Then, after you
told them that the reason they couldn't understand your concepts was
your inherently superior mind, they merely smiled at you, while
beginning to edge their fingers closer to that hidden button under the
desk. And even though you offered them the blotter acid free of charge,
they would have none of it.
So you went off in a huff...at the most, a minute and a huff.*
"Curse these small-minded fools!" you muttered, "After the Golden Age Of
Universal Truth comes, cretins like these shall be the first into the
airlock. Their Life Extension shall not be allowed!" ...and floating
next to you, the glowing head of Timothy Leary nodded in agreement. :-)

* Thank you, Groucho.

Pat